Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-08-20
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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpi.--Wit and
Wisdom Of the Gtcat Preacher.

Wisdom Of the Gtcat Preacher.
A book has just been published en-
titled Proverbs from Plymouth Pull
pit" the revision of which had been
partly competed by Mr.. Bcecher before
lis sudden death. The following
specimens of the great preachers sen.
tentious wisdom will be read with
interest:
A man is a great bundle oftools. He
is born into this life without the know
ledge OF how to use them. Education
is the process Of learning their use,
and dangers and troubles arc Gods
whetstoncs with which to keep them
sharp.
Cur government is built upon the
| vote. But votes that are purchased arc
quicksands, and a government built OF
them stands upon corruption and reyo
luton.
Debt rolls q man over and over,
binding him hand and FOOT and letting
him hang upon the fatal mesh unit
the long-Iegged interest devours him.
No city-bred man has any business
TO expect satisfaction in a pure country
life for two months unless he has q
genius for leisure and even laziness.
Poverty is very good in poetry, but it
is very bad in a house. 1t is very good
in maxims and in sermons, but it is
very bad in practical life.
A COW is the saint Of the barnyard.
She could be fat if she would only be
selfish. But she economies beauty
that she may be profuse in milk.
This is n good world to sin IN; but, so
far as men are concerned, it is a very
hard world to repent in. 1t is bitter
world; it is cruel world.
The elms of New England! They are
as much a part of her beauty as tie
columns of the Parthenon were the
glory of its architecture.
IN former times they built cathedrals
and let men live in mud hoyels. We
build no c~athedrals, and our poor men
live in good houses.
One Of the original tendencies of the
human mind, fundamental and univer-
sal, is the love Of other peoples private
affairs.
No where else can one find SO mis-
cellaneous, SO various an amount OF
knowledge as is contained in q good
newspaper.
/ Newspapers are the schoolmasters of
the common people. That endless
book, the newspaper, is our national
glory.
Gambling with cards or dice or
stocks is all enc thing-it is getting
money without giving IN equivalent
for it.
r 1t takes n man to make q devil, and
. the tittcst man for such a purpose is a
: snarlins. ~waspish, red-hot creditor
An apple tree puts to shame all The
a, men and ONE that have attempted
20 dress since the world began.
. Communities are blest in the proper.
: ton in which money is difIused through
, the whole range of population.
t In things pertaining to enthusiasm
to be insane or proper occasions.
Clothes and manners do not make
the man, but when he Is made, they
greatly improve his appearance.
Theology is nothing but mental phil.
osephy applied to the divine mind and
the divine government.
} The more important an animal is tc
be the lower is It's start. Man, the no
: blest of all, is born lowest.
, A proud man is seldom q grateful.
/. man, for he never thinks that he get,
! rs much rs he deserves.
That cannot be Il healthy condition
in which Il few prosper and the grca
} mass are drudgss.
The greatest event in a hens life i
2 made up of an egg and y cackle. Bu
/; eagles never cacklc.
Whoever makes home seem Il the
p Young dearer and more happy is q
public bcncfactor.
\ man without self-rcstraint is lik,
a barrel without hoops and tumblts
to pieces.
Flowers are the sweetest things tina
God ever made and forgot TO put ;
soul iuto.
g A man who does not love praise il
I not a full man.
> All virtues and graces go for nothing
I in a slattern.